Hi mates! I have a 120GB Massive Storage drive connected to my PC via USB 2.0. How can I mount its file system (NTFS) when working with linux?

I've tried unsuccessfully:

mount -t ntfs /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb
mount -t ntfs /dev/sda /mnt/usb
mount -a /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb

The hardware side seems to be well-configured.

Help!!

Thanks!

Have you created a mount point as root in /mnt?

What is the proper device name given to your massive storage drive?

First off, what kernel are you using? AFAIK USB 2.0 is only supported in the 2.5/2.6 kernels, so any regular distro using a 2.4 kernel would not suffice. As for how to mount it, I have personally never used a USB drive. I'm sure someone else will be able to help more than me.

slight

This might help?

www.crazysquirrel.com/linux/mounting_usb.php

Well, I have the Kernel 2.4.20 wih USB 2.0 supported. I've created a directory in /mnt directory so it's /mnt/usb. The error I get everytime I try to mount my external usb drive is that sda1 or sda or whatever is not a valid block device...

When I execute the lsusb command the unit is recognize fine as you can see below:

Bus 001 Device 002: ID 05e3:0702 Genesys Logic, Inc.
Device Descriptor:
bLength 18
bDescriptorType 1
bcdUSB 2.00
bDeviceClass 0 Interface
bDeviceSubClass 0
bDeviceProtocol 0
bMaxPacketSize0 64
idVendor 0x05e3 Genesys Logic, Inc.
idProduct 0x0702
bcdDevice 0.02
iManufacturer 0
iProduct 1 USB TO IDE
iSerial 0
bNumConfigurations 1
Configuration Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 2
wTotalLength 32
bNumInterfaces 1
bConfigurationValue 1
iConfiguration 0
bmAttributes 0xc0
Self Powered
MaxPower 96mA
Interface Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 4
bInterfaceNumber 0
bAlternateSetting 0
bNumEndpoints 2
bInterfaceClass 8 Mass Storage
bInterfaceSubClass 6 SCSI
bInterfaceProtocol 80 Bulk (Zip)
iInterface 0
Endpoint Descriptor:
bLength 7
bDescriptorType 5
bEndpointAddress 0x81 EP 1 IN
bmAttributes 2
Transfer Type Bulk
Synch Type none
wMaxPacketSize 64
bInterval 0
Endpoint Descriptor:
bLength 7
bDescriptorType 5
bEndpointAddress 0x02 EP 2 OUT
bmAttributes 2
Transfer Type Bulk
Synch Type none
wMaxPacketSize 64
bInterval 0
Language IDs: (length=4)
0409 English(US)


Well, now you see the reach of my problem. Thanks to all. Please, let me know about any suggestion you might have.

See you around!

Try finding the exact device name with:

fdisk -l /dev/sda

[roott]# fdisk -l /dev/sda
[root]# fdisk -l /dev/sdb
[root]# fdisk -l /dev/sdc
[root]# fdisk -l /dev/sdd
[root]# fdisk -l /dev/sde

ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!!

Have you formatted a filesystem correctly on it and created a partition?

Sure! I've been working with it under Windows XP without any problem at all...

I recently lost my Windows PC (which has happened more than
one time). So, I opted to load my RedHat 7.1. I was able to get
up and running and now would like to mount a Novell 5.0 volume.
Is this possible? If so, I can't seem to get the syntax down. Thanks.

Bob

Just out of curiousity what is the output of the dmesg command related to the USB 2.0 controller and the USB hard drive.

Do you have all the necessary modules loaded? Check with lsmod.

Wescosoft:
You should create a new thread for your problem.

you may find that the ntfs on /dev/sda has to be mounted as a specific partition on /dev/sda, such as /dev/sda4 in the case of vfat zip drives.

Well, sorry for the delay mates...

Tincat2 thankx, I've tried what you suggested to me but it still doesn't work.

Michaelk, below you have what you asked me for:

dmesg command output (I can't put the whole trace seems it's too long and the post reply doesn't allow me to put it completely):
I've skipped the beginning since it isn't very important
...
...
etc...
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
NTFS driver v1.1.22 [Flags: R/O]
ACPI: AC Adapter [AC] (on-line)
ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT0] (battery present)
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB]
ACPI: Lid Switch [LID]
ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports C1 C2, 16 throttling states)
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686b (rev 42) IDE UDMA100 controller on pci00:07.1
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1840-0x1847, BIOS settings: hdaMA, hdbio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1848-0x184f, BIOS settings: hdcMA, hddio
hda: IC25N020ATCS04-0, ATA DISK drive
hdc: SD-R2102, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
blk: queue c03412e4, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hda: 39070080 sectors (20004 MB) w/1768KiB Cache, CHS=2432/255/63, UDMA(100)
hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, DMA
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 >
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.26
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0xce80b000, 00:08:02:2e:b8:8f, IRQ 11
eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C'
Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 177M
agpgart: Detected Via Apollo Pro KT133 chipset
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xec000000
Via 686a audio driver 1.9.1
via82cxxx: timeout while reading AC97 codec (0xAA0000)
via82cxxx: timeout while reading AC97 codec (0x800000)
via82cxxx: timeout while reading AC97 codec (0xBC0000)
ac97_codec: AC97 codec, id: ADS99(Unknown)
via82cxxx: board #1 at 0x1000, IRQ 5
Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22
options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
Yenta IRQ list 0088, PCI irq11
Socket status: 30000020
uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1
uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x1800, IRQ 9
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
usb.c: registered new driver hid
hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 32768)
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
cs: cb_alloc(bus 2): vendor 0x1033, device 0x0035
PCI: Enabling device 02:00.0 (0000 -> 0002)
PCI: Enabling device 02:00.1 (0000 -> 0002)
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin B of device 02:00.1PCI: Enabling device 02:00.2 (0000 -> 0002)
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin C of device 02:00.2<6>kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 84k freed
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,3), internal journal
Adding Swap: 457812k swap-space (priority -1)
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,2), internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
eth0: Setting 100mbps full-duplex based on auto-negotiated partner ability 45e1.
cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize!

Thanks to all for you great help!!

Under /sbin/lspci, is device 02:00.x the USB 2.0 card? It doesn't look much like the card itself was recognized. Actually, what is the output of /sbin/lspci?

Cheers,

Finegan

Is the USB 2.0 onboard or PCI card?

I agree with finegan that it doesn't look like its being recognized. The module for USB 2.0 is echi.